Last night I was flipping through Amazon Prime movies and landed on The World of Henry Orient, which I haven't seen since its opriginal release over 60 years ago. I remembered loving it then. The two teen girls were wonderful, and I remembered that Angela Lansbury was a total unsympathetic bitch as Val's mother, but in 1964 I had no idea who Tom Bosley, who plays Val's doormat father, was. I thought in 1964 that Bibi Osterwald played the housekeeper, but this time I spent the movie wondering if she and Phyllis Thaxter (Marian's mother) were a lesbian couple. I also loved Paula Prentiss as the object of Henry Orient's (Peter Sellers) seduction, and there are nice bits from other actors.
I was surprised that the character of Kafritz, played by Alicew Playten in the musaical adaptation, only had one short scene, and I was happy to see Philippa Bevans, the original 1956 Mrs Pierce in Mt Fair Lady, and my friend Colin Romoff as the conductor of the Carnegie Hall orchestra. He was a dear man.
